Word: brindley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Analyzing Soviet satellites is more of a test. "You haven't the foggiest notion of what they look like when you begin," explains Electrical Engineer Charles Brindley, head of Radio Corp. of America's RSA research program. Despite the difficulties, an RCA scientist managed to use radar signature analysis as early as 1958 to describe Sputnik 2. When the Russians finally displayed a model of the satellite, it was confirmed that the sketch was remarkably accurate. It even included Sputnik's special radar reflectors-which led the U.S. to the conclusion that the Soviet tracking network included...
...match radar signatures to specific satellite shapes. These, they hope, can some day be used to program a computer to recognize and identify radar signatures more quickly than human operators. Their work is proceeding slowly. "Once you get past a few simple shapes like cones, cylinders and spheres," says Brindley, "the mathematical analysis goes to hell and becomes incredibly difficult...